·
India and
Japan recognized AI as a transformative technology shaping economies, governance,
security, and society.
·
Committed
to building a safe, secure,
trustworthy, inclusive, human-centric, sustainable, and innovation-oriented AI ecosystem.
·
Strengthen
AI cooperation under India's MAHASAGAR
and Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific
(FOIP).
·
Promote
resilient and inclusive AI development in the Indo-Pacific and the Global South.
·
Support
international AI governance based on:
o Safety
o Security
o Trustworthiness
o Inclusiveness
o Responsible innovation
·
Reaffirmed
support for the Hiroshima AI
Process (HAIP) and the New
Delhi AI Impact Summit outcomes.
·
Enhance
coordination on AI in:
o G20
o OECD
o Global Partnership on AI (GPAI)
o United Nations
·
Strengthen
cooperation through the Hiroshima
AI Process Friends Group.
·
Cooperate
on:
o AI model evaluation
o Capability assessment
o AI benchmarks and tools
o Trusted AI Commons
·
Strengthen
AI-enabled cybersecurity and protection of critical infrastructure.
·
Emphasized
safeguards for children's safety in AI systems.
·
Build secure
AI infrastructure, including:
o Data centres
o GPUs and computing resources
o Semiconductors
·
Advance
the FOIP Digital Corridor Initiative
to strengthen digital connectivity and AI supply chains.
·
Promote
collaboration on:
o Open-source AI
o Multilingual AI models
o Domain-specific AI
o Large Language Models (LLMs)
·
Signed
MoUs among Indian and Japanese institutions and companies for AI research and development.
·
Expand
industry–academia collaboration.
·
Encourage
AI research exchanges, internships, and employment opportunities.
·
Target
to invite 500 highly skilled
Indian AI professionals to Japan by 2030.
·
Promote
AI-enabled scientific research through the Network of AI for Science (AI4S).
·
Support
AI skilling and reskilling based on the principles adopted at the India AI Impact Summit.
·
Reaffirmed
commitment to the 'AI for All'
vision.
·
Promote
AI for:
o Inclusive development
o Better public service delivery
o Capacity building
o Technical assistance
o Knowledge sharing
·
Encourage
public-private partnerships and collaboration with like-minded countries.
·
India welcomed
Japan's announcement to host an AI
Summit at the earliest opportunity.
India and Japan have elevated
their AI partnership by committing to collaborate on AI governance, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure,
research, talent development, and inclusive AI innovation, with
the aim of building a safe,
trusted, and resilient AI ecosystem for the Indo-Pacific and the
Global South.
The Prime Minister of the Republic of
India and the Prime Minister of Japan acknowledged that Artificial Intelligence
(AI) is an era-defining general-purpose technology that is transforming economies,
societies, science and technology, industry and business, governance, and security.
They recognized that the choices made today in the design, development, deployment
and governance of AI will have long-term implications for innovation, social welfare,
economic security, and the international order. Based on this understanding, they
concurred in advancing cooperation to mutually enhance the resilience and competitiveness
of both countries in the field of AI and to bring about innovation and growth in
both countries, in order to build a safe, secure, trustworthy, inclusive, human-centric,
sustainable, accountable, and innovation-oriented AI ecosystem.
The two leaders recognized the need to
adapt to structural changes in the international order. They concurred in cooperating
to build resilient and growth-oriented economic ecosystems in alignment with India’s
MAHASAGAR and Japan’s updated “Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP)”. To this end,
they committed to strengthen AI cooperation between India and Japan, with like-minded
countries and partners, to support resilient and inclusive AI development in the
Indo-Pacific and the Global South.
The two leaders affirmed that, for the
sustainable development of AI, it is crucial to promote innovation through the use
and application of AI technologies, appropriately mitigate associated risks, and
ensure resilient, diversified, and trustworthy AI supply chains. In this regard,
they welcomed the deliberations and outcomes of the New Delhi AI Impact Summit.
The two leaders acknowledged the progress
under the "Japan-India AI Cooperation Initiative (JAI)" and especially
welcomed the discussions at the first India and Japan AI Strategic Dialogue held
in April 2026. They concurred in continuing regular India and Japan AI Strategic
Dialogues, involving relevant stakeholders as appropriate, to deepen common understanding
of AI opportunities and challenges and translate their shared vision into practical
outcomes in the following priority areas:
I. International AI Governance, Safety, and Cybersecurity
The two leaders reaffirmed the importance
of promoting an international governance framework that is centered
on safe, secure, trustworthy, robust, and inclusive AI that supports responsible
innovation, while respecting national laws, priorities, and contexts. They emphasized
that AI governance should be risk-balanced, participatory, informed, proportionate,
interoperable, and adaptive. In this regard, they reaffirmed the significance of
the Hiroshima AI Process (HAIP), including its international guiding principles
and codes of conduct for advanced AI systems. They also highlighted the principles
in the Guidance Note on AI Governance prepared during the India AI Impact Summit
by the Safe & Trusted AI Working Group, which was co-chaired by Japan. They
decided to strengthen coordination between the two countries in international fora,
including the G20, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
Global Partnership on AI(GPAI), and the United Nations, and welcomed the first UN
Global Dialogue on AI governance in this regard. They reaffirmed their commitment
to deepen cooperation within the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group and Partners
Community, including through greater participation of the Global South and the private
sector, and promote the implementation of the Hiroshima AI Process Friends Group
Action Plan 2026.
The two leaders emphasized the need to
strengthen cooperation on the safe design, development, deployment, and use of AI
throughout its full lifecycle, including on AI model evaluation, capability assessment,
guidelines, tools, and benchmarks. They encouraged relevant institutions to explore
cooperation through Trusted AI Commons, announced during the India AI Impact Summit
as a collaborative platform consolidating technical resources, tools, benchmarks
and best practices.
The two leaders recognized that highly
capable frontier AI models possess advanced cyber capabilities, which can strengthen
defenders while also creating risks of misuse. Reaffirming that cyberspace is a
Global Public Good, they underlined that arrangements for the evaluation, controlled
release and trusted access of such systems should be risk-based and attentive to
the legitimate cyber-defense needs of responsible partners.
They decided to strengthen cooperation on AI-enabled cybersecurity and the security
of AI systems, with particular attention to critical infrastructure.
The two leaders emphasized the importance
of protecting the safety of children as AI is developed and deployed, and concurred
that responsible design, governance, and risk-based safeguards are essential to
ensuring that AI serves as a means of learning and growth for children rather than
a source of harm.
II. Infrastructure Development, Model Development, and Human Resources Exchange
and Co-creation of Solutions
The two leaders reaffirmed the importance
of building safe, secure and trustworthy AI ecosystem, including in the Indo-Pacific,
supported by resilient, diversified, and trustworthy supply chains of AI technology
stack. In this regard, they decided to elevate India and Japan as strategic research
and development partners in the field of AI. They decided to strengthen cooperation
on secure digital infrastructure for AI, including data centers,
GPU and other compute resources, and semiconductors, and to jointly assess potential
opportunities and vulnerabilities across the AI technology stack from an economic-security
perspective. In this regard, they also emphasized advancing the FOIP Digital Corridor
Initiative to strengthen digital connectivity and resilient AI supply chains.
The two leaders decided to cooperate on
resilient, innovative and efficient AI, taking note of the Voluntary Guiding Principles
on Resilient, Innovative, and Efficient AI as discussed at the India AI Impact Summit,
the Playbook on Advancing Resilient AI Infrastructure, including through work on
efficient models, optimized inference, energy-efficient compute and green, secure
data infrastructure.
The two leaders concurred in enhancing
cooperation between government, industry, and academia on multilingual, open-source,
domain specific, and vertical AI models, including models for native languages and
public interest applications. In this context, the two leaders welcomed the signing
of several significant memorandums aimed at fostering deeper collaboration in the
field of Artificial Intelligence. These include a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
between the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, the BharatGen
Technology Foundation, and the National Institute of Informatics (NII/ROIS) for
the joint research and development of large language models (LLMs); a MOU between
Sarvam and Preferred Networks to cooperate across the full AI technology stack;
and a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) between India AI and METI (Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry) to support AI development companies from both countries.
The two leaders recognized the importance
of AI-enabled scientific discovery and advanced research, and encouraged relevant
institutions to cooperate in this regard, including under the Network of AI for
Science (AI4S) Institutions established during the India AI Impact Summit.
The two leaders reaffirmed the strategic
importance of deepening research cooperation, including promoting joint research
projects and fostering the exchange of researchers. In this context, the two leaders
committed to further strengthen the industrial competitiveness of both countries
by engaging in human resource exchanges through industry-academia collaboration,
from semiconductors to applications across the entire AI stack. Recognizing India's
strong AI human capital as a foundation for closer cooperation, they welcomed the
growing engagement of Japanese companies with India's leading higher education institutions
and technology talent. Both sides concurred to undertake measures to encourage Japanese
companies to expand AI-related R&D, innovation and industry partnerships in
India, while supporting the professional development and mobility of Indian talent
to Japan through joint research, internships, employment opportunities, and other
pathways, to foster stronger linkages between Japanese companies and India's AI
talent ecosystem. In this context, they reaffirmed the goal, set out at the India
- Japan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue in January 2026, of inviting 500 highly
skilled AI professionals from India to Japan by 2030 and promoting joint research.
The two leaders also recognized that human
capital is central to the responsible development, deployment and governance of
AI. In this regard, they highlighted the utility of the Voluntary Guiding Principles
for Skilling and Reskilling in the Age of AI formulated during the India AI Impact
Summit.
The two leaders reaffirmed the importance
of co-creating AI solutions to address the strategic, economic, and societal priorities
of both countries, and concurred in accelerating ongoing projects through public-private
partnership. They called upon corporations, startups, research institutions, investors
and public agencies of both countries to identify concrete problem statements and
co-develop scalable AI solutions. In this regard, they encouraged relevant stakeholders
to draw upon the Global AI Impact Commons to support the adoption, replication and
scale-up of successful AI use cases.
III. AI for All
The two leaders welcomed the vision of
'AI for All' advocated by the 'New Delhi Declaration' adopted at the India AI Impact
Summit and reaffirmed their shared commitment to aim for AI to benefit all humanity,
for inclusive and sustainable development, and to improve public services delivery.
The two leaders decided to work together,
with like-minded countries and other partners, to support AI capacity building,
technical assistance, knowledge sharing and use-case replication respecting national
laws, priorities, and contexts. The two leaders concurred that strengthening cooperation
with partners from third countries and multi-stakeholder communities is key to co-creating
a safe, secure, inclusive, sustainable, resilient, and trustworthy AI ecosystem.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed
and supported Takaichi Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan,
in her announcement that Japan will host the AI Summit at the earliest opportunity.